Overwinter your Peppers for a HUGE harvest! #overwinterpeppers #overwinteringpeppers

… dude the electricity and costs for some chilli is ridiculous…lol I have chilli that I just cut back and leave it where it is…it's dormant during winter and comes back in spring….duh.

Talk about serendipity!!! I was just worrying the other day about how I was going to miss five of my specialty pepper plants. The ones I planted THRIVED this year and they’re still doing amazing. I’ve harvested sooooo many peppers, and I would hate to have to start from scratch again. This will not only save my plants, but will also increase their production season. Thanks so much!!!

This seems like such a shock to the plant in a few ways. I prefer to be more gentle and just store them in a greenhouse, water much less and let them go dorment themselves. Trim back as needed and don't let it try to fruit, cut them off.

You’re the first to advise temperature and light requirements. Thanks!

I dont put them under a grow light i just put them near a window

Was looking for your wormcasting seedling mix on your channel but having difficulty pinning it down. Can you post the mix measurements here?

this is not exactly overwintering=

Cool, but why? Just get the seeds, plant them and then do the same stuff with lights a month before you plant them into the garden. Works just fine

I tried this and my plants died, why did that happen?

12 hours for 4 to 6 months until it'd be ready to go back outside there's no way I could dedicate that space plus my spring seedlings not possible.

can I not just bring the whole plant and pot inside?

Is overwintering necessary if I planted my peppers in a coastal California climate? We get maybe one frost every winter if we’re lucky and I figured I could put a sheet over them the night before for that.

Rinse off all the pests and insects. Then replant in worm castings full of pests and insects

How much does it cost to keep them under a grow light for half a year?

Why cut the thing up if you're just gonna let it grow again?

This is an insane amount of steps and resources to devote to a pepper plant lol.

Or live in Florida and grow them year round

I prefer to watch old timers when it comes to anything on gardening or farming

Nice!!…what about tomatoes???

I live in the chile capital of the world. We just start over from seed every year, no biggie really. Unless you’re a chile breeder it’s not really necessary. I just start my plants early indoors, less issues with bugs and other things getting in. But if this works for you for whatever reason, then cool, but chile just isn’t that rare where I live, McDonald’s has green chile for the burgers even, that’s how common it is.

How to kill my plant.

Does this work for tomatoes as well?

If I'm lazy- I can get away with overwintering them naturally, anyways. I don't have to dig them up or anything because I live in a Mediterranean climate. 😅😂
Literally have a pepper plant in the yard that is taller than me right now. I think it might be on year 3 or 4 now… It's a bishop's cap pepper, if anyone is curious.

Can you over winter tomatoes?

Don’t wash the roots. He’s chatting shyte. It’s not a bonsai. You go nite chance of killing the plant and you lose all the healthy mycorrhizal fungi petting the plant. Gave a thumbs down for poor advice

how big will it get over the course of 7 or 8 months? In Ontario it would likely be 8 months inside under the lights. Could we keep pruning it?

How many years can you do this for😮

who has a pepper plant that small after a season??

I have never tried to carry over my plants, I always just let the gardens die off then rotate but I will start trying more over wintering. I want to get a greenhouse for winter growing as well.

I never water that soon after root trimming anymore, I learned the hard way by causing a lot of root rot doing that.

I just yanked mine out of the soil basic trim up, and put them where they had 2 windows with good sun. I got pepper DURING winter, mostly had Tabasco, and Thai peppers.

I wish I knew this a couple years ago!

I’m in LA and my bell pepper is on its 3rd year currently. I just give it a chop and leave it over winter. She starts shooting new growth in the spring and has given me her best bounty yet! Hoping she stays alive another year 🤞🏽

Cool video… thank you!!

Hello quick question do you still fertilize or just regular water

Sure ill just over winter them for 7 months 😂😂😂😂😂

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Three sets of my pepperplants were overwintered and producing in a southwindow last year. Already in smaller fabric pots. More peppers planted this year that I’ll do the same with. They actually grew better in the second year for me.

I just bring my pot inside

My local sheriff must hate you.

If I had a room that was 70 above I wouldn’t need to prune my pepper plants 😂

LOL! I was with you until the, 'put them under a grow light for 12 hours per day' Uh… and this is helpful how? I'll spend the 1.25 on a pack of seeds

Or if you live in California, just water it as normal with no fertilizer and watch it continuously produce fruit for years

You can also let it go dormant as it's a triennial by putting in a cool dark room instead until early spring

People will see this video and say "time to plant a tree exactly like this!" And in a few years you have a dead tree